Wool-carding machine



(No Model.)

W. B. & H. WPBOSWORTH. Wool Carding Machine.

No. 238,559. Patented March 8, I881.

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WILLIAM E. BOSWORTH AND H. WALLACE BOSWORTH, OF LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

WOOL-CARDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,559, dated March 8, 1881.

Application filed September 8,1880. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. Bos- WORTH and H. WALLACE BOSWORTH, of Lexington, in the county of Fayette and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvementin\Vool-CardinglVIachines, ot'which the following is a specification.

The objects of our improvements are to obviate the trouble experienced in cardingmachines from the wool getting under the creel-spools and thereby becoming tangled, stretched, and broken; also, to prevent accumulation of wool on the guides of thecardingmachine where the rolls enter, so that free passage of the rolls shall not be hindered.

The construction and operation will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein 'Figure 1 is aperspective view, showing our improvements as applied in connection with a creel-frame and parts of a carding-machine; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the guidetubes and their relative arrangement with respect to other parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the creel-frame, adapted to carry spools a, as usual; and B is the carding-machine, of which I) is the entering-roller, and c the usual guides for the wool passing to the cards.

Attached to the creel-frame, or fitted in front of the same at the side toward the cardingmachine, are vertical bars (I, which are placed asuitable distance apart, there being one bar for every two vertical rows of spools. In the bars cl are fitted short wires 6, which wires extend horizontally and parallel with the creelframe. There will be as many wires 0 as required-generally five in each bar d-so that each wire serves two spools a. The ends of wires 6 are formed with hooks, on which are hung tubes or funnelsf, by aring attached to the funnels, so that they hang loosely and can move freely on the books. The tubes are made of tin or other suitable material, and are hung at their center of gravity to insure movement with equal freedom in any direction. This arran gement furnishes a funnel or tube, f, for the roll of wool from each spool, and as the rolls pass to the carding-machine through the tubes the latter adapt themselves to the direction. The tubes are hungjust at the distance in front of the spool required for preventing the rolls from sagging or running down by their own weight and becoming wrapped around the lower partof the spool-rest, as is frequently the case with the usual mechanism. The wool, by passing through the funnel, has the friction required to insure a steady constant motion, by which itisprevented from becoming tangled and mixed. The ends of the tubes f, from which the wool runs, will be in direct line with the point at which the roll enters the cards. Usually the rolls pass directly to the iron guides 0, and enter side by side, so that there is more or less chafing and accumulation of wool on the guides. To prevent this we use the guide board or boards g, fixed in front of the iron guides c. The guide 9 consists of a single board with two rows of holes, one above the other, or two boards, each with a single row of holes fixed in place, as shown. Onehalfthe rolls from tubes f pass through the perforations in the upper guide, and one-half through the lower, so that the rolls are separated-and pass through the guide cin the same relative position-that is, with every other one raised instead of all being side by side, as usual.

The guides g are set to direct the rolls straight through the cards to the dofl'er-rings on the other side.

By the use of these devices the waste and trouble from broken and tangled rolls are avoided, and the advantages obtained over the usual mechanism are less waste and better work.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In carding machines, the combination, with the creel-frame, of the swiveled tubes or funnels f, hung in front of the creel-frame to receiy e the rolls of wool from the creel-spools, as described.

2. In carding-machines, the combination,

with the tubes f, of the wires 0 and vertical bars (I, as shown and described.

3. In cardingmachines, the combination,

with the bars (I and tubes f, of the guide-board 5 g, having two rows of holes, one above the other, and the iron guides O, the board being fixed in front of said iron guide, whereby the rolls pass alternately through an upper and lower hole, as described.

WILLIAM BOSWORTH. H. WVALLAOE BOSWORTH. Witnesses:

BENJAMIN M. CHAMBERS, JAMES M. DUFF. 

